[And reckelesse so to Court I went, and tooke my throne.]
48.
Assoone as I was set, the traytors all arose,
And one approached nere, as to demaund some thing,
To whom as I layd[884] eare, at once my foes[885]
Mee compast round,[886] their weapons hid they bring,
Then I to late perceiu’d the fatall sting:[887]
O this (quoth I) is violence: then Cassius pearst my breast:
And Brutus thou my sonne (quoth I) whom erst I loued best?
[Hee stabde mee in, and so with daggers did the rest.]